Good article. Just proves there is more than one way to skin a cat

"I cannot find Win32_NTLogEvent anywhere"

This is a WMI class. There is a whole bunch of them in Windows http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/wmi_reference.asp

"...you know that MAPI is a goner in 2005"

Well it's not actually gone, it's still there but you have the option of using a new thing called DatabaseMail which is SMTP based. Realistically, I don't know that many DBA's given the option would use SQL Mail and rely on MAPI and Exchange.